We call a felucca, a felucca; a bombarda, a bombarda; a polacre, a polacre; and a lugger, a lugger. From Wordnik.com. [The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet] Reference
The felucca has been the most popular vessel on the Nile for centuries and is still widely used today. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
Sail on a 'felucca' around Aswan's Botanical gardens. From Wordnik.com. [ETravelBlackboard.com] Reference
51 A foist, foyst or buss, was a kind of felucca, partially decked. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
Lerici, where we proposed to hire a felucca for Genoa. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
An Englishman, who had hired a felucca from Antibes to. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
Return to Dabba at once in the fastest felucca in our fleet. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
Then three felucca com 'alongside, and you'se been hoist bales. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: the Sea] Reference
They shipped their paddles and the felucca rocked on the current. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
Tommy was to be infiltrated by felucca or dropped in by Lysander. From Wordnik.com. [between silk and cyanide]
The felucca had disappeared; Groslow and his men were annihilated. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
We had scant difficulty in hiring a felucca to take us to Iskandria. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
The water curling back alongside the felucca now was more blue than red. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
In the prow of the felucca, Joscelin set down his neatly wound fishing line. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
After temples and tombs, to end a day, why not put up your feet on a felucca. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2008] Reference
He released Mintaka so suddenly that she fell into the bilges of the felucca. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
The news was carried by a fast felucca, flying to us on the wings of the north wind. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
It was now a dead race with the felucca, which had forged ahead while we were in stays. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
Lanterns glowed on the bow, forward mast, both sides, and stern, and the felucca was barely moving. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
The thought made him vaguely ill in a way that the pitching and rolling of the felucca never could. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
Suddenly the raking yard of a felucca started out from amid the haze; then came another, and another. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: the Sea] Reference
All recognised the voice, and strained their eyes in the direction in which the felucca had disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
From what I had observed, Wali was a good man — simple and kind, with an abiding pride in his felucca. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
Alicata, Girgenti, and Palermo, I arranged with one of the passengers to take a felucca and sail direct for Naples. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
Betimes our felucca captain, whose name was Wali, would join in and their mingled voices would ring across the waters. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
Along these arteries of traffic many tons of tracts and propaganda are hurled annually by train, felucca and colporteur. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
It was a swift-sailing lateen-rigged felucca, one of those crafts that are common enough in Eastern waters, especially in the Levant. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
He, too, seems a seafaring man; and no felucca-rigged vessels in the Mediterranean are smarter, finer-looking craft than the Spanish. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
“Could the LGM have heard us reciting from The Tempest three days ago when you first regained control of the felucca?” asked Orphu. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
The long-horned oxen already spoken of, toil along the seaside road like the horses on our canal banks, and tug the heavy felucca towards. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
It was a windy day and the felucca was rocking from side to side as it tacked back and forth and the whitecaps batted at it from the south. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
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